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    "id": 585104,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kubai Iringo",
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        "legal_name": "Cyprian Kubai Iringo",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this Bill. First and foremost, let me take this opportunity to thank my colleague, Hon. Ngetich for coming up with this Bill. I agree that it is well-thought and well researched. It will go a long way in trying to harmonise and also regulate our engineering and technology sector. It will bring in checks and balances into this sector. In bringing up this Bill, it gives the engineering and technology sector a big boost, in that we would not be getting engineers who, just after graduation from school, go solo and do their own things. They go and start practising on their own. At the end of the day, we end up getting what we would call quack engineers who do shoddy jobs because there is nobody who is there to regulate them. This Bill will bring in a board which will regulate, check and do the balances. It can also help in protecting young engineers from unscrupulous investors who would sometimes misuse them in getting professional services but they do not pay them well or vice- versa where a job is unprofessionally done. Once the Board starts licensing these professionals, it will be easy to get those engineers who are maybe dormant, who left the country and they just want to come or went to other businesses and they do not practise. Experience makes perfect. Some engineers just go and do other things but when they get a job which they would want to do, they would do it shoddily and that is why we get poor workmanship, which is why we get houses collapsing and killing people. This is very expensive for the country. Also, there is no way of tracking whoever did it because there is no regular way of getting the person who does it. Once something goes wrong, they go underground and we do not The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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